The following is a list of research projects supported by the California Preterm
Birth Initiative through the UCSF Resource Allocation Program (RAP).
Prenatal Intervention Projects
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Evaluating the effect of San Francisco’s Paid Parental Leave Ordinance on preterm bir...
We hypothesized that San Francisco’s Paid Parental Leave Ordinance (PPLO) may have improved birth outcomes via reduced stress during...
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Evaluation of an adapted fatherhood curriculum to strengthen paternal involvement dur...
The purpose of the study is to evaluate an adapted fatherhood program to enhance paternal involvement during pregnancy in Fresno, CA....
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Multi-Stakeholder Engagement with State Policies to Advance Antiracism in Maternal He...
California has passed a new law (SB464) that requires perinatal clinicians to undergo implicit bias training, with the goal of...
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Exploring women’s experiences to inform Drug and Alcohol Pregnancy Policies study (D-...
Evidence remains mixed about how many people use cannabis in pregnancy and what the harms of such use may be. It is clear however that...
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Adaptation of the person-centered maternity care scale for women of color in the U.S.
Given the stark disparities in maternal mortality and adverse birth outcomes impacting Black, Indigenous, and other people of color,...
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Using Community Health Workers for PTB Prevention
Community health workers (CHWs) are an underutilized and uniquely equipped workforce to reduce longstanding disparities in preterm...
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Persistent human cytomegalovirus infection of the amnion in preterm birth and intraut...
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection during pregnancy is a leading cause of birth defects and preterm birth, and African American...
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OMX, a novel oxygen carrying protein, for resuscitation in preterm delivery secondary...
While hemoglobin is the primary oxygen delivery molecule used to maintain tissue oxygenation in metazoans, many organisms have other...
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Social determinants of health, adversity and resilience (SOAR) Factors
Pregnancy care can serve as a natural point for addressing SOAR factors for women at risk of PTB. Our study aimed to examine existing...
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EatSF: Fruit and Vegetable Vouchers to Support Pregnant Mothers in San Francisco with...
Results show that adding vouchers specifically for fruits and vegetables to existing WIC benefits improves the food security of low-...
Postnatal Intervention Projects
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Exploring Lactation and Pasteurized Donor Human Milk Use Experiences among Black Fami...
The study aims were to: 1) identify factors that promote or hinder breastfeeding, milk expression, and use of donor milk in neonatal...
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Pediatric Clinic Survey of Maternal Preterm Birth Risk and Family Planning Needs and...
Improving access to birth control is an opportunity to meet women’s needs and improve the health of women and children, for example...
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Informing Model Articulation by Eliciting the Family Experience: A Pilot Study of the...
The aims of this study were to (a) describe the Special Start intervention model in detail, and (b) describe families’ experiences of...
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Milk, Growth and Microbiota: An RCT of Donor Milk vs. Formula to Supplement Breastfee...
This small study provides estimates of weight gain for late preterm newborns requiring supplementation. These estimates may inform the...
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Postpartum Contraceptive Decision Support Tool
Meeting people’s needs for birth control after having a baby can help people achieve their reproductive goals, as well as decrease the...
Discovery Projects
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Hyper-localized air pollution measures and preterm birth in the Bay Area
One in ten babies in the U.S. are born preterm and 1 in 25 mothers experiences preeclampsia during pregnancy. Air pollution may play a...
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Drug use and pregnancy policy study (D-APPS)
As a supplement to a NIAAA-funded study where we examined whether policies affect preterm birth, and whether policy effects vary by...
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Exploring the Dual Burden of Severe Maternal Morbidity and Preterm Birth in Californi...
For most families experiencing preterm birth, the infant(s)’ health will be the main focus. However, for some families whose babies...
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Understanding and reducing barriers to utilization of Progesterone (17P) and other ev...
An intervention that may reduce recurrent PTB by as much as 33% among women with prior spontaneous PTB is the use of hormonal...
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San Francisco Preterm Birth Review (SF PTBR)
The goal of this project was to make it possible to find out what specific aspect(s) of housing, neighborhood, access to care and/or...
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Qualifying Risk: Exploring How Life Course Stress Experiences Influence the Risk of P...
Experiences of pregnant black women who are very poor comprise a rich tapestry of life experiences. Each recognized their own unique...
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Testing exposure to local immigration enforcement as a structural determinant of pret...
We evaluated the impact of county-level immigration enforcement measures under the SCOMM program on preterm birth. SCOMM is a federal...
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Is preterm birth associated with air pollution from oil and gas power plants in Calif...
Future coal and oil power plant retirements may reduce preterm birth among nearby populations.
